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Re: 9-Track Tape Questions - Sequent/Unisys U6000-75

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From: Pete Gregory - UNIX SA
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 16:20

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In article <1992Apr14.140627.5371@eds1.eds.com> jdm1@eds1.eds.com (Jonathan D McCown) writes:
>
>We utilize a Unisys U6000-75 (a less sinister looking OEM of Sequent Symmetry)
>[...]
>BUT the tape drive continues to crank along reading the tape, and no 
>combination of button pushing and feverish prayer can make it return
>more than "device busy"  UNTIL I REBOOT THE MACHINE.
>
>We are running the Unisys flavor of PTX 1.2  (4 processors, lots of memory
>etc) and the tape drive is a Unisys/Kennedy which is attached to the mbus.
>Tech support (Unisys) recommends fuser/kill to wipe out processes using the
>device.. BUT by the time this hits there are no processes using the device.
>(close the barn door... the horses have run off!)
>
>Is there a general rule/observance on mbus drivers losing their minds?

You have my sympathy... on our PTX 1.1 system, it is appallingly easy to
hang the MBUS driver, and for us, only a reboot will fix.  Unisys has been
NO help.  Be thankful you have 1.2 - fuser doesn't work in 1.1.
-- 

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From: pete@wvus.org (Pete Gregory - UNIX SA)
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Subject: Re: 9-Track Tape Questions - Sequent/Unisys U6000-75
Keywords: TAPE SEQUENT UNISYS - AACK!
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Date: 14 Apr 92 16:20:21 GMT
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